Combat Baby · Metric

117 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 19-33 and 35-49, and 5 more places -- 94% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
COMBAT BABY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 3 sections: 116 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-89.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Combat Baby?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Combat Baby hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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